WHO IS ROGER WODEHOUSE?
ROGER WODEHOUSE is the most important recording artist in the United Kingdom. Along with his unparalleled band, CHELSEA TELEGRAM, Roger has been dominating the charts and igniting the imagination of the British public for years, courting controversy and acclaim in equal measure.
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At the forefront of the revolutionary genre known as GLAM ROCK, Roger crafts performances that blend dynamic ROCK-N-ROLL with spectacular THEATRICALITY — drawing inspiration from American rhythm and blues, Weimar cabaret, science fiction cinema, erotic poetry, ancient mysticism, modern dance, and of course Kabuki. In many shows, Roger cycles through a series of audacious PERSONAS (the avian trickster Perry Featherman, the rapacious capitalist Mr Boss, the resurrected pharaoh Glasses III) as the band’s sound leaps from the primitive to the polyphonic to everything in between. A Roger Wodehouse concert is a transcendent, sensual, sensory experience that expands musical horizons, subverts established notions of gender and taste, and dissolves your inhibitions to prepare you for imminent transhuman evolution. It will inevitably be the greatest night of your life.
And in their ongoing NORTH AMERICAN TOUR, you have the RARE OPPORTUNITY to join Roger and Chelsea Telegram in intimate club settings, getting up close and personal with a band that normally plays stadiums, arenas, and palaces. Drop everything you’re doing and buy a ticket immediately. You will never be the same.
WAIT, IS THIS REAL?
Roger does not subscribe to binary notions of “real” and “unreal,” but in the strictest sense, no. This is a comedy rock-n-roll show.
A Roger Wodehouse performance is our loving, whimsical tribute to the excess and exuberance of the glam heyday. You’ll be transported back to the glittering mid-1970s, to be entertained by an androgynous, unrestrained, and often uninformed artist at the peak of his powers — evoking David Bowie, T. Rex, Jobriath, Queen, Kate Bush, Prince (artists whom Roger considers his rivals and/or imitators) and more! And it’s all one big clown show, combining genuinely catchy original songs and ridiculous lyrics with the larger-than-life characters of Roger, his best mate Terence, the rest of the band, and the occasional surprise guest star.
The music is real. The costumes are real. The time period is ambiguous. The fame is fake. The film and television credits are questionable. The lyrics are dumb. The show is unmissable.
